Arts + Entertainment

Readers' Choice

Best Singer

Kate Hinote (The Blueflowers)

The noir-ish, genre-bending alt-pop band the Blueflowers have been together since 2008, self-releasing their first album the following year. Hinote and her husband, guitarist/producer Tony Hamera, lead the band. MT has called their debut a "genuinely beautiful and touching piece of work," praising Hinote's versatile and lovely voice for how it "remains note-perfect and goose bump-inducing throughout."